Direction
This week, Direction met to discuss server hosting, Ithania, staff ranks, and other topics.

• MonMarty prepared updates to server hosting and reviewed roleplay systems.
• QGMK hosted Survival Staff meetings, completed Direction paperwork, and performed individual direction for Game staff.

PR
The PR team continued on with their own personal projects this week! We also have a handful of new PR aspirants so as a team we’ve been showing them the ropes, assigning projects to them or assisting in projects of their own. The Halloween episode of the Massivecast was recorded and edited this week, with hopes for it to be posted on Halloween.

• Kirishark submitted the PR round-up, recorded an episode of the Massivecast, worked on a skin contest with Goldifish, worked on future player spotlights with Slutmancer and took tickets.
• Femma upkept social media posts, worked on podcast co-ordination and general management, recorded an episode of the Massivecast and worked on the lore item revision project.
• Wan_Xia held a workshop on 3D modeling entities,as well as edited and implemented models of BiBiBirdie in-game. and created custom models for Mythic Mobs.
• Seoulmate held the staff trick or treat event, upkept social media posts and worked on the lore item revision project.
• Goldifish held a 3D modelling workshop, worked on some custom 3D models and began working on their skin contest with Kirishark.
• Slurmancer began working on their player spotlights with Kirishark.
• Oblivaify wrote forum annoucement posts, recorded background graphics for the MassiveCast and worked with Game to explore the best ways of communicating new mechanics and gamemodes to the playerbase.

Game
This week, Game has been working on the following projects:

1. Our Rules have received a Rework! Check out the new rules page here: https://www.massivecraft.com/rules
2. In preparation for Kingdoms, we are making changes to alt factions. Alt factions will have a designated flag preventing them from joining a Kingdom. Please fill out this form here to aid us in the process of identifying alt factions.
3. If you would like to apply to be a Newscaster on our survival community discord, apply here!
4. Work on the interactive faction leader tutorial is open to both staff members as well as players. If you would like to be take part, please check out this document detailing more information.
5. Claiming faction land is no longer possible while in combat.
6. The Halloween PvE was hosted on the 30th. If you still have tickets left to redeem, make sure to make an ingame ticket before the 2nd of november!
7. We started on a rework of our End map, expanding it to provide a better PvP experience there. Keep an eye out for announcements when we are nearing completion!
8. As per usual, we are continuously assisting our playerbase via tickets (40+) as well as rule enforcement.

• BlueChaos hosted the Halloween PvE event, tested MythicMobs and assisted players.
• QGMK aided players, tested bugs, handled reports and appeals, configured [REDACTED] and [REDACTED], and updated the server rules.
• Effloresce_ hosted the Halloween PvE event and assisted players.
• Rahm_Kota hosted the Halloween PvE event, worked on the Faction leader tutorial, worked on the End rework and assisted players.
• skhosh worked on [REDACTED] and assisted players.
• Fiend_of_Massive worked on the Faction leader tutorial, worked on the End rework and tested MythicMobs.

Tech
Tech worked on Kingdoms & Sieges and MassiveRaces.

• FourThirteen and CS_Birb worked on Kingdoms and Sieges.
• XVW worked on MRaces.

World
The focus of this week was finishing up the Roleplay prison Greygate, along with interior decoration for mainstreet shops.

• WaterDruppel: worked on the interior of Greygate prison, decorating more of the offices and hallways with Bunemma. Also took care of Clandestine base interior and griefers in Regalia.
• SpunSugar: did event assistance, decorated a mainstreet shop and participated in The Most Dangerous Game.
• Bunemma: worked on the interior of Greygate prison, decorating more of the upstairs offices and hallways with WaterDruppel.

Quest
We worked on Storyline writing and coding for Ezekiel Event quests. There are 8 total quests that are in various stages of development. The stages of development are: storyline, coding, implementation, testing, and finalization. A task to-do will be to create nearly 2 dozen builds that need to accompany the quest storyline, as well as design the mobs, drops, and prizes for participation.

Lore

Lore Updates:
Changes Submitted by, Oka, Hydralana & Firefan

https://wiki.massivecraft.com/Craft_Art_Category#Woods_Table

We have removed Catholicism, again!

Teleports to Unionist Temples in game have been changed:
-City Cathedral is now AllBeaconTemple
-Salvation Church is now SalvationTemple
Hopefully now, the words cathedral and church will stop being incompliantly used in roleplay

We purged the ability Arken Sense 1.

Other minor changes:
1. Morvali have had a note added to indicate that they are focused for events like haunted mansions and whatnot, not as characters with development. Anyone is free to use them as event characters, but keep the lore intentions in mind.
2. A minor note on playing child characters was added to roleplay rules (which will get some tweaks to the format later). You can play child characters (and thus have no app), but if you are weird about it, we will revoke your rights to play them. Don’t be weird.
3. Yet another minor change: Home Enchant 3’s Proficiencies have been updated to reflect those that currently exist. In short, all Hobby Group Categories are boosted, EXCEPT Nature Art given the nature of the skills in that Category.

World System Updates:
Submitted by Monmarty

Noble Family Applications have been revised. All outstanding applications have been declined due to changes in requirements. This thread has simplified requirements, but also more expanded information on the process. We will officially be starting a new Noble Season at the beginning of next month, so now is the perfect time to start fresh and (roughly) equal with the others. Applications will remain open indefinitely however.
https://forums.massivecraft.com/threads/noble-family-applications.96350/

Event Updates:
No new updates!

Roleplay Updates:
No new updates!